Peter Silas Pasqua: Throwbacks are not just for style

Peter Silas Pasqua

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May 22, 2009 at 12:01 AMMay 22, 2009 at 10:01 PM

Sporting duds of athletic teams was nothing new to Snoop Dogg, who cruised for some gin and juice on the handlebars of a Schwinn in a Pittsburgh Penguins’ jersey. A few years later, Snoop Dogg modeled a 1968 Lance Allworth No. 19 San?Diego Chargers jersey, and the throwback was born.

Some time ago, a rapper that goes by Snoop Dogg started a fashion trend that made professional sports organizations very happy. You see, "slim with the tilted brim" is a hip-hop megastar and a magnet for setting trends.

Sporting duds of athletic teams was nothing new to Snoop Dogg, who cruised for some gin and juice on the handlebars of a Schwinn in a Pittsburgh Penguins’ jersey. A few years later, Snoop Dogg modeled a 1968 Lance Allworth No. 19 San?Diego Chargers jersey, and the throwback was born.

If you were a rapper and didn’t have a retro sports jersey, you might as well have hung up your microphone, because every kid in surburbia was already buying them up to look like D-O-Double-G.

Through the years, I admit I have browsed throwback jerseys in search engines and wouldn’t mind having a few of my own. The jersey of Pittsburgh Steelers’ Jack Lambert, Green Bay Packers’ Ray Nitschke, New Orleans Jazz’s Pete Maravich, Boston Celtics’ Robert Parish, Houston Astros’ Nolan Ryan, New York Yankees’ Joe DiMaggio and yes, even Pittsburgh Panthers’ Dan Marino and Duke’s Bobby Hurley.

The NFL recently announced that eight former AFL teams will wear 1960s throwback uniforms during “legacy games” in the 2009 NFL?season. We already have seen many of them recently -- like those of the Chargers, Bills, Patriots and Jets.

Wait a second. If teams are longing for their past so much that they are bringing out old uniforms, why did they change them in the first place? For one, I am a much bigger fan of Pat Patriot than Flying Elvis.

And yes, the Chiefs will have to wear a helmet outlining the state of Texas with a star on Dallas when they play the Cowboys because they were originally the Dallas Texans.

But if you want a throwback that you probably never have seen before, check out Denver’s brown and yellow uniforms with simple numbers on the helmet. The vertical stripes are awesome.

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Weekly Citizen (Gonzales, La.)

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